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Comedians nicking each others jokes?

  • 21-06-2012 12:07AM
    #1
    Eggy Baby!
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    Okay, so I was watching a Tommy Tiernan stand up DVD a few weeks ago, and he mentioned something pretty funny. I went along the lines of:

    "Why do they ban drugs in the olympics? Because I'd gladly pay to see athletes finishing the race at the speed of light"

    Excuse my bad paraphrasing but it was something like that, with the same sort of message. Ha ha ha all very funny.

    But then I saw an episode of Mock the Week, and Andy Parsons was talking about sport. He mentioned the same joke, almost word for word. I believe it even had the same punchline.

    Not wanting to show bias here as I have no idea whether or not the Tiernan stand up was filmed first or the Mock the Week episode featuring the joke was.

    I think I also heard Frankie Boyle say the joke at one of his stand up gigs on DVD. Its everywhere!

    Any of you guys aware of this? Do you know of any other occasions where jokes were used by more than one comedian or is it common practice for comedians to share jokes among themselves?


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  • #2
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    Eggy Baby! wrote: »
    Okay, so I was watching a Tommy Tiernan stand up DVD a few weeks ago, and he mentioned something pretty funny. I went along the lines of:

    "Why do they ban drugs in the olympics? Because I'd gladly pay to see athletes finishing the race at the speed of light"

    Excuse my bad paraphrasing but it was something like that, with the same sort of message. Ha ha ha all very funny.

    But then I saw an episode of Mock the Week, and Andy Parsons was talking about sport. He mentioned the same joke, almost word for word. I believe it even had the same punchline.

    Not wanting to show bias here as I have no idea whether or not the Tiernan stand up was filmed first or the Mock the Week episode featuring the joke was.

    I think I also heard Frankie Boyle say the joke at one of his stand up gigs on DVD. Its everywhere!

    Any of you guys aware of this? Do you know of any other occasions where jokes were used by more than one comedian or is it common practice for comedians to share jokes among themselves?

    Why did the chicken cross the road ?


  • #3
    christmas2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭christmas2012


    the difference between comedians and non comedians is they get paid to joke around..thats all they are touted as huge celebrities its time we brought them off that pedastel and not buy..comedians are two a penny now..sick of them


  • #4
    El Weirdo
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    In before Denis Leary gets mentioned.


  • #5
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Eggy Baby! wrote: »
    Do you know of any other occasions where jokes were used by more than one comedian or is it common practice for comedians to share jokes among themselves?

    Not any more, robbing material is totally frowned upon. American comedians are very competitive in particular. I've seen videos where this one guy who was huge over there a few years ago was accused on stage of stealing jokes by another comedian. His career plummeted soon afterwards.


  • #6
    Pushtrak
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    Dane Cook/Louis CK, anyone?
    Edit:


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  • #7
    BRAIN FEEDs
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    In before Denis Leary gets mentioned.
    i have never heard of this guy:confused: nad no,i aint going to google him either:(


  • #8
    Sparklepants!
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    Denis Leary stole lots of material from the late Bill Hicks years ago. Caused quite the stir. Comedians steal each others jokes all the time but tell them in a different way.

    El Weirdo wrote: »
    In before Denis Leary gets mentioned.

    Oh well.


  • #9
    The Master
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    In before Bill Hicks gets mentioned.

    Who?


  • #10
    dango
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    Jerry Fluffy Square wrote: »
    Not any more, robbing material is totally frowned upon. American comedians are very competitive in particular. I've seen videos where this one guy who was huge over there a few years ago was accused on stage of stealing jokes by another comedian. His career plummeted soon afterwards.

    Dane Cook and Louis CK comes to mind.



  • #11
    MonkieSocks
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    cloptrop wrote: »
    Why did the chicken cross the road ?

    I deduce this was a Rock Island hen, eleven months old, and that it was kept in a mesh cage composed of galvanized iron.

    Surely Watson, you can see this was a festive Sunday afternoon, and the chicken is but one step ahead of the family stew pot.;)

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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  • #12
    Shryke
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    It used to be that every comedian would steal the other guys stuff but that's going decades back. These days it's frowned upon. Only the more old school plebs like Brendan Grace carry on like comedians did back then.

    There's only so many topics to make jokes about too. Drug use in the olympics is a fairly huge target.


  • #13
    carefulnow100
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    On one of Dara o Briains live show's he mentioned something along the lines of how science doesn't know everything, which is why science keeps going with development of new drugs and such.



    Russell Howard said the same thing, almost word for word on another program a few weeks later.


    Was funnier when Dara said it anyway.


  • #14
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    In before Bill Hicks gets mentioned.

    Who?


  • #15
    Professey Chin
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    Joe Rogan confronting Carlos Mencia about it was pretty good :pac:


  • #16
    30txsbzmcu2k9w
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    Jerry Fluffy Square wrote: »
    Not any more, robbing material is totally frowned upon. American comedians are very competitive in particular. I've seen videos where this one guy who was huge over there a few years ago was accused on stage of stealing jokes by another comedian. His career plummeted soon afterwards.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M42BflUZry8


  • #17
    recylingbin
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    Tommy Tiernan is a comedian??? :eek:


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
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    It's probably more widespread than we'll ever know. Here's a video of Stewart Lee talking about Joe Pasquale stealing Michael Redmonds (Fr. Stone from Father Ted) joke.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YE9Kthyaco


  • #19
    deco nate
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    Jerry Fluffy Square wrote: »
    Not any more, robbing material is totally frowned upon. American comedians are very competitive in particular. I've seen videos where this one guy who was huge over there a few years ago was accused on stage of stealing jokes by another comedian. His career plummeted soon afterwards.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M42BflUZry8


    you mean this:D


  • #20
    Helix
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    Eggy Baby! wrote: »
    Okay, so I was watching a Tommy Tiernan stand up DVD a few weeks ago, and he mentioned something pretty funny. I went along the lines of:

    "Why do they ban drugs in the olympics? Because I'd gladly pay to see athletes finishing the race at the speed of light"

    Excuse my bad paraphrasing but it was something like that, with the same sort of message. Ha ha ha all very funny.

    But then I saw an episode of Mock the Week, and Andy Parsons was talking about sport. He mentioned the same joke, almost word for word. I believe it even had the same punchline.

    Not wanting to show bias here as I have no idea whether or not the Tiernan stand up was filmed first or the Mock the Week episode featuring the joke was.

    I think I also heard Frankie Boyle say the joke at one of his stand up gigs on DVD. Its everywhere!

    Any of you guys aware of this? Do you know of any other occasions where jokes were used by more than one comedian or is it common practice for comedians to share jokes among themselves?

    that joke is around a LOT longer than tommy tiernan


  • #21
    Eggy Baby!
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    Helix wrote: »
    that joke is around a LOT longer than tommy tiernan

    I'm not saying the joke was originally Tiernan's, it's just where I heard it first.


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  • #22
    Bbbbolger
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    carefulnow100 wrote: »
    On one of Dara o Briains live show's he mentioned something along the lines of how science doesn't know everything, which is why science keeps going with development of new drugs and such.



    Russell Howard said the same thing, almost word for word on another program a few weeks later.


    Was funnier when Dara said it anyway.

    Another one I've heard Dara O'Briain say is about how herbal medicines that work are called medicine. Heard Tim Minchin use the exact same joke. I looked O'Briain up on YouTube and they were word for word th same. Don't know who had it first but it's bad form if you steal a joke and don't even change it a little bit!


  • #23
    SouthTippBass
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    In before Krusty the clown.


  • #24
    im invisible
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    In before joe paskwale pasquale pascalue...
    Too late..


  • #25
    ejmaztec
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    In before the 50,000 word post about a shaggy dog.


  • #26
    Vicxas
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    The most famous one i heard of that was mentioned before was the Denis Leary nicking Bill Hicks' jokes and Bill Hicks taking immense offense to it.


  • #27
    humanji
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    Wasn't there a warm up act for Tommy Tiernan who was booed off stage for suing a Tommy Tiernan joke, a few years ago?

    Everyone brings up Dennis Leary and Bill Hicks, but not many bring up Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce. And I'm sure Lenny Bruce was heavily influenced by someone before him too. I'd say it's more difficult to find a comedian who hasn't stolen a joke or a style from someone else.


  • #28
    smash
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    Sacramento wrote: »
    Here's a video of Stewart Lee talking about Joe Pasquale stealing Michael Redmonds (Fr. Stone from Father Ted) joke.

    5 minutes 14 seconds... He could have said all that within a minute, and that's why I just can't watch Stewart Lee!


  • #29
    elefant
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    carefulnow100 wrote: »
    On one of Dara o Briains live show's he mentioned something along the lines of how science doesn't know everything, which is why science keeps going with development of new drugs and such.



    Russell Howard said the same thing, almost word for word on another program a few weeks later.


    Was funnier when Dara said it anyway.

    That doesn't surprise me one bit.

    Actually,what would surprise me is if I heard Russell Howard say something funny.


  • #30
    biko
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    Shamefully stolen from a thread in Stand-up forum (sorry bmbm).

    Leary
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwhxqnCyoGo


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INarE1WraFA


    Carlos Mencia steals from everyone

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVYfDCgYxk


    Dane Cook steals from Louis C.k

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ_710y4vR4


    Heres a interesting blog post by Patton Oswalt regarding a "comedian" that stole entire routines from him,even down to his individual mannerisms

    http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=67077201&blogId=533643624


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  • #31
    optogirl
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    Have heard professional foul-mouth granny with irritating laugh Brendan O'Carroll do Billy connolly routines and just 'Dublin' them up.


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